dissever
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Of course there would be marriage, but of deliberate choice, and after a long and purely platonic friendship, in which all the horrid little failings that do most to dissever could be recognized and weighed.
From Ancestors A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
This is not the type of anecdote which looms large in the volumes of "minced saints" prepared for pious readers, and its absence has accustomed us to dissever humour from sanctity.
From Americans and Others by Agnes Repplier
Mistress Hutchinson thus helped to dissever Church and State, and to found religious freedom in the United States.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To dissever them without injury to the written spaces was by no means easy.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
But the check is for a time—the gap and chasm does not dissever.
From Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by R. W. (Richard William) Church
Vocabulary lists containing dissever
Selection Vocabulary 1, Unit 2
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Selection Vocabulary 4, Unit 1
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